I am the grandchild of William Benjamin Bradshaw. He married a granddaughter of Isaiah Cates Day .I seeking information on them. would like to ask the school district to pass this message on to the schools. I know they once did an article on the grave site. By now, your computer classes are adept at seeking knowledge on the web. I would appreciate their help. We still are present as a family in Dayton in that the Davis land is ours. It is for sale now as there are thirty of us who are heirs. I am writing for several history publications and would like to include this story as I know how he helped to bring the railroad through Dayton and how the cattle he raised were branded with family symbols. His brand was a rocking D. My grandmother Bradshaw was a Flying Goose. The Chambers had several that were more like Christian symbols. I belive there was one for Amanda Davis who was a Baldwin. This family of ours came to Dayton in 1823 or 1824. I have a written testimony that said the first white child born in the Atascosita District was in the Indian village near there. It was the child of Henry Munson, brother to my Micaijah B. Munson . Elizabeth Everett Munson, Micaijah's wife was granted a league of land by the empresario which at that time was a merit in itself. Because of the change in leadership , it was not granted until 1830. Her daughter was the second wife of I.C.Day, Martha Caroline Munson. She is buried in the Prewitt cemetery which I think is called the French Cemetery. Martha Emilie Day Davis was her daughter and my Grandmother Davis. My mother was Alice B. Rogers of Houston. There is a scholarship which is carried by the Houston Advertising Federation in her naem. It is well over one hundred and fifty thousand now. It is for students who major in Communications and Advertising. My mother ws a student from the public schools in Dayton who achieved National recognition. She is written up in several WHO's WHO editions. She died in 1993. This is a close relative of whom I write. The town of Dayton Texas is named for Isaiah Cates Day, born in 1812 in Tennessee. We think his home was in Shelby Co. Tennessee. This is the birthday of one of his great grand daughters who remembers the town before the automobile came. Her grandmother had the first car there and gathered the children in the rumble seat when she learned to drive so that they would be safe. She has seen the astronauts land on the moon via satellite. She has seen wars that tore families apart and she has lived through the assassinations of three decades. She has retained her ability to be formal and has still managed to make people feel her affection. I have found I.C. Day in the Oral history of the slaves in a magazine article. I am aware of his ability to care for a ranch of over two hundred people. I also know him to have been a devout Christian man. I am his great great grandchild and I can think of no greater gift than to be able to tell this remarkable woman who Isaiah Cates Day was before he came to Texas. And who her great grandparents were. Therefore I am asking the Bradshaw, Cates and Day root lists for help. Please mail any information you might find to <[email protected]> before the 18th of September 1999. Thank you, Jane Matthews, VictoriaTexas